“To Choose Your Own Sky”: Rootedness and Dislocation in the Poetry of Saʿdī Yūsuf

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Abstract

Saʿdī Yūsuf has long been acknowledge as Iraq's foremost living poet and the progenitor of "the exilic poem" in modern Arabic literature. This article discusses the poetics of exile in Yūsuf's poetry from the 1960s to the present day.
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationCultural Pearls from the East: In Memory of Shmuel Moreh (1932-2017)
EditorsMeir Hatina, Yona Sheffer
Pages69-90
Number of pages22
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9789004459120
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameStudies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World
Volume11

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